CALLING ALL ARTISTS! We're gonna start coming up w/ Ideas that could become specific Segments for each of the Themes for our Season 2 episodes. Now we are exploring some of the Angles RE: THE FUTURE that the community's really been rallying behind.

CALLING EVERYONE W/ A CAMERA! A lot of great ideas for HITRECORD ON TV emerge from the Q&As we ask the community, so we'll be doing these for each of our Season 2 Themes - so, RECord your specific stories & experiences RE: The Future.

We can probably all agree that the way technology is advancing will have a huge impact on our future. And it seems that movies and TV shows often portray that impact as a negative one. Terminator, Matrix, the current movie Transcendance, these are just three examples among many that offer frightening hypotheses about machines becoming more powerful than humans, and eventually becoming our enemy.

Personally, I think there's a very valid warning in those stories. But I also think advanced tech like nanotechnology and artificial intelligence have enormous potential to have a positive impact on our future.

The question is, how do you tell a story about that kind of positive impact? The stories about negative impact are easier in a way. When you can create a compelling antagonist out of "The Machines", you've got yourself a great thriller. And make no mistake, I love those movies. But, how to make something entertaining, yet positive?

I wanna open this question up to you guys. Let's hear your ideas.

Here's one idea I've had. What if it were a serialized kind of story set in the future. Like an episodic TV show. And what if it weren't a thriller, but more like a slice of life kind of thing. Like, for example, Mad Men, or My So Called Life, or something like that. And the plot wouldn't be specifically ABOUT the technology. But the technology would just sorta be part of the setting. Like how the 1960s setting of Mad Men is a compelling part of that show.

Just brainstorming, what would the world be like for an average 16-year-old girl in the year 2114? Or even 2064? What...

100% reliable birth control tech that is also inexpensive and optional (so people can have children when they want and are ready) (imagine no more abortion dilemna)

Cures for aging and disease, plus of course replacements for lost body parts- imagine how daring we'd become!

Any "limitless" energy source, ideally with low pollution

REVISED:

I'm not sure if it is better to revise here or start a new REC, but a couple more:

Houses that are either nano-tech or genetically modified (extremely!) plant forms that grow themselves, but then we humans live inside them symbiotically... Meaning our outputs become their inputs, and vice versa.

And for helping conserve limited resources, clothes that can change at one's whim, so that you only ever have one set and instead download fashions from the cloud, paying for the ideas of the design rather than the cloth... These would either self-clean (ultrasonic?) or never get dirty and would be made of something either indestructable or self-repairing (super smart silk?)

Using comets for spaceships that people live inside of (I can think of at least two books that deal with this). It's one of my favorites because it solves a lot of "problems" and I think it helps fulfill several basic human needs- the need for growth and the need for discovery and the need for purpose. Ok,...

Just thought I'd throw out the idea that prophecies aren't actually realistic but instead just make you make decisions that support whatever it is you think is meant to happen to you and then you end up making it happen by yourself.

E.g. Your horoscope tells you you're going to meet a special someone this month so you leave the house more because you think it's going to happen and then you keep seeing the same, supposedly new but you've probably just not looked before, guy across the coffee shop so you think he must be the special someone and therefore you have to go up and introduce yourself and boom you've made yourself meet someone special and fulfilled your prophecy and created the future that you thought was meant to happen to, or predicted for, you.

What is the future to you? Do you fear your future? If so, why? Where do you want to be in the future and what steps are you taking in the present to work towards this destination? Do you envision our future to be something that is positive or negative? What can we collectively be doing to encourage a proposerous future for ourselves and our offspring? Where do you think science will take us? Do you think technology is a good or bad thing? Are we becoming more disconnected? What problems would you like to see resolved in your lifetime? Are we all doomed?

Could potentially be used for the final episode of the series. It's tone can be left ambigious, so it can act as food for thought for the viewers.

This theme reaches a lot of different subject matter that I would love to see the community explore. Here are some things to think about…

THE STEREOTYPICAL Flying cars and robot butlers may be a cliché, but it really lends itself well to interpretation and creativity. I know that the community could back that type of a project really with engaging stories, unique songs, and stunning visuals.

APOCALYPES A future world, throw into desolation, and we are the survivors! How did we escape, what happened to the world, how does this look like, and what are the psychological ramifications of all this? I feel like all of these questions could be expanded upon really well.

FUTURE ANTICIPATION I consistently find myself worrying about the future. Where do I see myself in five years type of crap. It’s exhausting. But I know plenty of people with a very que sera sera attitude about the whole thing. It’s definitely worth some exploring in the community.

PREDICTING THE FUTURE This topic has been attempted for hundreds of years, oracles, fortune tellers, psychics, the list goes on. ? I mean they have a freaking hotline to get your future told now days! There are a lot of things that come with this. Can these people even exist? Do we even want to know exactly what will happen in the future? Can we change what we anticipate? The butterfly effect. What happens if we interfere?

TRAVLING TO THE FUTURE H.G. Wells the time machine is freaking amazing and we could really pull from that. Where would you go, the far off or closer to the present? How would this time travel affect those closest to the...

This could be a good way to end the season (as a sort of 'looking forward' type deal). This episode could include things about things that we look forward to, it could include futuristic stories, and so much more. This is a fairly broad idea (I like that because it allows for interpretation). The episode could contain bits about the future of hitRECord.

I think a main focus could be decisions we make (which we make depending on potential future outcomes).

Something specific that comes to mind is a story about someone placed in a life or death situation, and how he/she decides to deal with it (decides what his future will be)